Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 58
"'God knows, soldier, whether you'll break me in to harness, or I'll break you.'"
Who acts: God, you, Soldier · What happens: know, break in, harness, break · To what, where: soldier, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, you, Soldier), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 knows | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 knows | punct |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 knows | nsubj |
| 4 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 soldier | punct |
| 6 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knows | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 break | punct |
| 8 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 11 break | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 break | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 break | aux |
| 11 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 knows | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 break | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 break | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 harness | mark |
| 15 | harness | harness | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 break | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 break | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 break | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 break | nsubj |
| 19 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 break | aux |
| 20 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 break | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 break | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knows | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 knows | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | God | soldier | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break in in a quote | future | you | the Soldier = soldier | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | harness in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | break in a quote | future | the Soldier = soldier | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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